Where does Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. ranks #555 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. hold?

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. holds 808 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 137 technology areas.

What is Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.5 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -14% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s patents?

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s patents average 12.6 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. focus on?

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 364 patents, ranking #6 of 1,741 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 137 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 808 granted patents across 137 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mitsubishi ranks #555 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 808 patents across 137 technology areas.

#555
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.5/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R555 · Foreign Corporation #555 · 808 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 808 grants
TOP-DECILE #555/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH C R Bard
CPC-WIDE C08G · 137 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: C.R. Bard, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Mitsubishi’s 61.5 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 23.1 pts (38%) Velocity 5.8 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Denka · near

62
DSP Group · near

62
FCA US · near

62
Mitsubishi Gas… · this assignee

62
Adobe Systems… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mitsubishi's Innovation Score is 61.5/100 (top 3% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Mitsubishi?

Each dot is one of Mitsubishi’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Mitsubishi’s own 12.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Mitsubishi vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Mitsubishi's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. received 346 grants versus 404 in 2015–2019 (-14% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 105 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 43. Lead class C08G accounts for 45% of the portfolio across 137 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Sony Mobile Communications Inc. (#551) and Mandom Corporation (#559).

Mitsubishi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. moved from 220 to 193 grants (0.88x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,571. See the growth leaderboard.

Sony Mobile Commu…

815
Fuji

812
Lsis

812
C R Bard

808
Mitsubishi Gas Ch… ◀

808
Meta Platforms

807
Baker Hughes Oilf…

803
King Faisal Unive…

803
Mandom

803

What this shows Mitsubishi holds 808 patents at rank #555, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mitsubishi

By rank, the assignees closest to #555 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Mitsubishi's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mitsubishi, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…), Mitsubishi ranks #6 of 1,741 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

FCA US LLC. 62 Denka Company Limited 62 DSP Group Ltd. 62 Adobe Systems Incorporated 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. 12.6 avg Shenzhen First Union Technology Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg FIH (HONG KONG) Limited 12.6 avg Colder Products Company 12.6 avg

Mitsubishi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

62 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	83	10.3%
2016	74	9.2%
2017	75	9.3%
2018	105	13.0%
2019	67	8.3%
2020	79	9.8%
2021	74	9.2%
2022	81	10.0%
2023	43	5.3%
2024	69	8.5%
2025partial year	58	7.2%

Which technologies does Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 364

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 261

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 177

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 167

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 166

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 158

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 107

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 100

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 92

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 84

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 83

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 78

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 75

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 69

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 61

Top 15 of 137 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 45% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #555 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. against Sony Mobile Communications Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.5/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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